Physicians Performing More Procedures To Remove Or Alter Weight-Loss Devices,

reported that physicians “are doing fewer weight-loss procedures to implant adjustable bands around the stomach and more operations to remove the devices or alter them.” Across the US, “a total of 28,202 patients underwent procedures to implant laparoscopic adjustable gastric bands (LAGB) from 2007 to 2015.” During that same period, more 12,000 patients had their gastric bands removed. However, “starting in 2013...surgeons did more procedures to take bands out than to put them in.” The findings were published in the Journal of the American College of Surgeons. https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-gastricbanding-removal-surgeri-idUSKCN1AY219